Post Convention

I am so excited. Not just because the Convention moved in the way a good play should, culminating in a great climax - or to be plain, that the last act was the best; but because John McCain has done himself a huge disservice with his VP pick.

Gov. Palin makes Barack Obama look positively over qualified to be president. This is deadly for a man who could keel over at any minute. I'm serious, the man is old and the job is high stress.

Now I am sure that the nation will be hearing a lot of the the pundits that McCain has played the right card in or to pickup the bitter Hillary Clinton voters. And if those women wish to support a ticket that does not recognize their right to choose, has less experience, is ultra conservative, and is plainly the worst kind of pandering - so be it. The rest of us will not forget that they took their toys and went home when the going got tough. I can't help but wonder where these women were when Carol Mosley Brown was running 4 years ago. Oh right, they were voting for John Kerry. Thanks a lot.

Even better, the pick of Gov. Palin will shine a big old light on the up coming trial of Sen. Ted Stevens. Here are some of the incredible highlights of this regressive candidate:

Palin is pro-life.

Palin supports the teaching of creationism alongside evolution in schools.

She opposes same-sex marriage.

She supported a non-binding referendum on whether there should be a constitutional amendment on the matter.

Alaska was one of the first U.S. states to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage, in 1998, along with Hawaii. Palin has stated that she supported the 1998 constitutional amendment.

Governor Palin is currently under investigation by an independent investigator hired by the legislature to determine if she abused her power when firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

That last one is really interesting - you should look it up. Or just wait a week - it will be all over television. There's sex involved.

It's all in the T-Shirt

Today I am wearing my brand new Obama 08 T-Shirt. There are several good things about this shirt:

1) It fits. I have been having trouble with this over the past month - many of my clothes seem to have been replaced with tents.
2) Though I am usually not a fan of brown, this brown looks good.
3) The casual observer might just think it's a sports T-Shirt.
4) Here is the big one: I get really great service at Starbucks! Like really great. Like "come to front of the line, my man" great.


I am wearing this also in celebration (thats right) of McCain getting a lead in one poll. Obama needed a wake up call and he got it. Not that One poll makes it a real lead. And everyone does seem to have forgotten that the vaunted Zogby poll has been wrong about the presidential election for the past 2 cycles. So in spite of the press latching on to what is most likely an aberration, or a bad polling sample, I think it's good for Obama to have some adversity to deal with.

Now Hurry up with the VP selection will you - I'm getting Impatient!

CNN is dumber than I though

I watched Late Edition for the first time ever this weekend. I can now say that CNN has the Stupidest Team in Politics. For not other reason that in the hopes of sparking doubt, or appearing impartial, or just out of plain old ignorance the CNN equivalent of MSNBC's Chuck Todd, one Bill Schneider , spouts off a California poll that shows Obama up by more than 20 points - then proceeds to twist that Obama's national lead is based completely on the number difference from California. What he does not do is include Texas, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Mississippi in this count as overwhelming numbers for McCain, because the people who live there are stupid. No really, look up the education numbers. It's not impolite and elitist if it's true - and there is no reason to be proud about being stupid.

It's think kind of twisting of numbers that really gets me pissed off. In a way it might be good, it could send more Obama devotees to the polls on election day, but mostly it paints the picture that this race is closer than it is.

John McCain has been putting out negative television ads before his own convention. Talk about going negative early. The first one to go negative is usually the one who is going to lose. Not only that, most campaigns wait until the actual general election begins. John McCain's own campaign knows they are going to lose unless the do something drastic. Like they have already done. There is a argument to be made that they just did it not to get buried during the Obama "the world already thinks I'm president" tour - but either way it illustrates a profound desperation.